This morning on The Daily Rundown, Fehrnstrom told Chuck Todd that Romney disagrees with Republicans who claim that the individual mandate in President Obama’s Affordable Care Act is a “tax.”

Here’s the exchange:

TODD: The governor does not believe the mandate is a tax — that’s what you’re saying?

FEHRNSTROM: The governor believes what we put in place in Massachusetts was a penalty and he disagrees with the Court’s ruling that the mandate was a tax. […]

TODD: So he agrees with the president that it is not — and he believes that you should not call the tax penalty a tax, you should call it a penalty or a fee or a fine?

FEHRNSTROM: That’s correct. But the president also needs to be held accountable for his contradictory statements. He has described it variously as a penalty and as a tax. He needs to reconcile those two very different statements.